Senior Ingestion Engineer (UA/Remote)

About the team:

We are the Ingestion team within the Tubular Labs brand. Tubular is a social video intelligence platform. As the world spends more time watching social video, more companies are realizing the massive influence it has on behaviors. Only Tubular provides a unified view across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch and more. The Ingestion team develops a full-cycle data ETL pipeline and provides data to underlying stakeholders. Our stack includes Python, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hive Metastore with AWS S3 and more. We are looking for a senior engineer to help us expand our capacity to deliver amazing user experiences while maintaining a high degree of code quality. The team works closely with the product team to ideate, develop, and deploy new features. As a member of an Ingestion team, you would be responsible for end-to-end implementation of features, advocating for best practices, and providing technical leadership.

What we are looking for:

• Have 5 or more years of industry experience as a software engineer with proficiency in Python.
• Good level of understanding of relational databases (SQL).
• Experience with distributed systems (Apache Kafka, Apache Spark) would be a plus.
• Have experience owning and leading technical projects that require collaborating with other technical teams.
• Experience with AI coding assistance (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code etc) would be plus.

What you bring:

• Excitement around making good software.
• An open and inclusive mindset.
• Excited to work in a fully remote environment and be a self-starter.
• Be able to participate in on-call duties.
• Skillful communication of ideas that enables collaboration with others with the ultimate goal of building consensus.
• Confidence in owning outcomes, communicating with stakeholders, and seeing a project to completion.
• Enthusiasm to mentor more junior engineers.
• Ability to adapt quickly.